Here are the books on my post-graduation reading list, in alphabetical order. Anything I should add? Anything I should move to the top? Anything you’ve read that I should remove from the list? I do not yet own the books marked with an astrisk. Also, I’ve been off fiction for six years–anyone willing to give me their top-five-or-so-fiction-of-all-time list?
A Pattern Language
A People’s History of the World, Harman
Achilles in Vietnam, Shay
An Ecology of Mind, Bateson*
Animals In Translation, Grandin*
Animals Make Us Human, Grandin*
Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families, Levi & Orlans
Biochemical Individuality, Williams
Clinician’s Guide to Systemic Sex Therapy, Hertlein, Weeks, Sendak
Cognitive Theory and the Emotional Disorders, Beck
Collapse, Diamond
Conceptual Revolutions, Thagard
Consciousness Explained, Dennet
Dynamic Assessment in Couple Therapy, Hiebert, Gillespie & Stahmann
Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Couples, Epstein & Baucom
Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken the Heart and Mind, Walsh
Everyday Zen, Beck
Eye to Eye: The Quest for a New Paradigm, Wilber*
Futurehype: The Tyranny of Prophecy*
Generations, Strauss & Howe
Genograms, McGoldrick
Gestalt Theory Verbatim, Perls
God In Search of Man, Heschel
Grace & Grit, Wilber*
Growing Old is Not For Sissies*
Handbook of Emotion Regulation*
Handbook of Emotion*
Healing Emotions: Conversations With the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health
Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust & Love, Olans & Levi
Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native Peoples, Duran
Healing Trauma, Siegel*
How Doctors Think, Groopman*
How the Mind Works, Pinker
How To Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People, Alford
Internal Family Systems Therapy, Schwartz
Lies My Music Teacher Told Me, Eskelin
Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen
Life Maps, Fowler*
Look Me In the Eye: My Life With Asperger’s, Robison
Love & Survival, Ornish*
Love Is Never Enough, Beck
Loving What Is, Katie*
Mad in America, Whitaker
Mans Search for Meaning, Frankl
Manufacturing Consent, Herman & Chomsky
Natural Capitalism, Hawkins, Lovins & Lovins
On Becoming a Person, Rogers
One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality, Wilber*
Pain Free at Your PC, Egoscue
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire
Phantoms in the Brain, Ramachandran *
Play In Family Therapy, Gil
Positive Words, Powerful Results, Urban
Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy, Fromm-Reichmann
Protecting the Gift, Becker
Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy, Green & Flemons
Resolving Sexual Abuse, Dolan
Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice, McGoldrick*
Reviving Ophelia, Pipher
Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships, Imber-Black*
Rituals In Family Therapy, Imber-Black*
See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Power of Our Five Senses, Rosenblum
Self-Compassion, Neff*
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Wilber*
Size Matters: How Height Affects Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys, Hall
So Sexy So Soon, Levin & Kilbourne
Story, Symbol and Ceremony: Using Metaphor in Family Therapy*
Strange Attractors, Butz*
Successful Aging, Rowe & Kahn*
Survivors Club: Secrets & Science that could Save Your Life, Sherwood*
Telling Lies, Ekman
The 12 Stages of Healing, Apstein & Altman
The Albert Ellis Reader
The Collected Works of CG Jung, Hopcke
The Dance of Anger, Lerner
The Divided Mind, Sarno
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Mlodinow
The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think, Aunger
The Emergence of Everything, Morowitz
The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad, Wilber*
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Maslow
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotions in the Making of Consciousness, Damasio
The Gift of Fear, Becker
The Healer Within, Jahnke
The Inklings
The Laws of Emotion, Frijda*
The Myth of the Chemical Cure, Moncrieff
The Nature of Emotion, Ekman & Davidson
The Personality Puzzle, Funder
The Presence Process, Brown
The Problem of the Soul, Flanagan*
The Quantum Mind & Healing, Mindell
The Science of Good and Evil, Shermer
The Science of Trust, Gottman
The Simple Feeling of Being: Embracing Your True Nature, Wilber*
The Stages of Faith, Fowler
The Therapist’s Guide to Psychopharmacology, Patterson
The Toe Bone and the Tooth, Prechtel
The Unwritten Rules of Human Social Interaction, Grandin*
The Way I See It: A Personal Look At Autism and Asperger’s, Grandin*
Theory-Based Treatment Planning for Marriage and Family Therapists, Gehart
Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autism, Grandin*
Time for a Better Marriage, Dinkmeyer & Carlson
Traumatic Stress, van der Kolk
Unconditional Parenting, Kohn
Up From Eden, Wilber*
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Levine*
What’s Really Wrong With You: Muscles & Health, Grivier*
You Ain’t Got No Easter Clothes, Love
June 29, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Shop class as soul craft.
The rational optimist.
The unnamed (fiction)
June 29, 2011 at 5:58 pm
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
June 29, 2011 at 11:27 pm
How about the Internet? I am working on reading the whole thing…
July 1, 2011 at 7:59 pm
I can’t say I can name my top five,because I have been in the same place as you. But, Ken Follett weaves two really excellent tales. Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. Both worth the 1000+ pages they consume. I couldn’t put them down and will try to read them both again this summer!
July 3, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Compelling reading list! I look forward to graduating so I can get to reading myself.
Best,
Alison